Bastion: Thoughts?

HA TOLD YOU PATCHMASTER. Don't even hate the game. It was fun. Okay I do actually have a question. Why did some of you love it? By that I mean some of you like....really liked it. A lot.

I know that sounds weird, but when everyone was going over their year in review game stuff, this game came up a lot. So I feel like I'm missing something here(because I get that it's fun). Like the art and music are ****ing fantastic, and I'm not exactly in Dystopian's camp of hating the narrator, he's okay. And I like the weapon types and stuff.

But the combat is really simple, and not necessarily a bad thing. Just when it's coupled with the fact that fighting certain enemies was just meh(like those fat gas things, that would just spluge all over the place when you hit em) and the constant "Oh look boss fight type scenario where you fight mad em, with turret stuff being fired everywhere". For a good portion of the game it feels like it has no variety.

Plus the battering ram stuff is kind of wack, and maybe it's just me but I did not like the platforming part(might be because I was working on a mouse and keyboard, and that just felt awkward to me. It's probably fine on a gamepad).

Oh and those dream sequences(seriously **** dream sequences for life) are cancer in this game(thank god they are optional). That type of wave based enemy trial stuff is fine in like a game like Bayonetta or Ninja Gaiden, where the combat kicks ass(and has more going for it), but in this game? Oh hell no.

....that sounds mad negative. But I had fun with the game overall. The power ups make the weapons feel stronger as you go, the canon stuff was legit, story telling was really cool(minus the fact that some of the cool stuff require me to deal with the dreams), and I love the soundtrack. So yeah my thoughts.

Shut up Patch you terrible Bostonian douche, I liked the game.

I thought it was great. I did like most of the weapons and there were times when the game was challenging. I enjoyed the endings.

It also helps that the soundtrack and art was amazing.

But yeah it's not perfect. I'm usually not a fan of the isometric view in games like this, esspcially at the end with the platforming parts.

I love it because I feel the end result is more than the sum of the parts.

There is so much charm, excellent storytelling, amazing visuals, and great music. It's just probably the best gaming experience $15 bought me.

To be fair, I didn't think you'd HATE it. I just knew you'd find a way to criticize the hell out of it.

Point proven :cool:

I love it for all the reasons you mentioned.  Good storytelling in games is hard to come by, good pacing, good progression, great art, great music, etc.

Combat could've been better, but w/e.  Isometric action-oriented combat doesn't really get much better.  inb4diablo

I think it's similar to World of Goo -- there's nothing there that comes out and really grabs you, but the more time you spend with it the more you come to realize how well executed everything is.

Champ pretty much covered what the basedgod was going to give the game its credit for.

Basedgod likes Bastion. The basedgod came to appreciate it alot more after playing the rather compelling New Game+, with all the tools and idols available to ramp up the difficulty and add abit more variety. Though, the basedgod did feel that Bastion could have expanded on its twin stick elements (there was a lock on with the controller) and maybe even built on some of the bullet-hell scenarios it presented on rare occasions.

What the basedgod didnt like was the constant blurring and/or obstruction of the sprite models behind the environment and the health vials in the back end of the game were way too abundant.

The narration was not, though.Foolz3h